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“Handing [$800] to people is not going to solve the issues facing the economy. I just don’t see that. Thinking in the short term will not solve the problems the United States faces.”

Beth Ingram, associate dean and C. Woody Thompson Professor of Economics in the Tippie College of Business (Iowa City Press-Citizen, Jan. 18).

"There is a very significant correlation between how early you get on the drug and how long you live—if you're a[n ALS] mouse."

John Engelhardt, professor of anatomy and cell biology in the Carver College of Medicine, on a drug that doubles the life span of mice suffering from an inherited form of Lou Gehrig’s disease (Des Moines Register, Jan. 25).

"Deaths attributed to radon and its decay products surpass even the number of deaths each year from other dreaded diseases like brain cancer, melanoma, and bone cancer."

R. William Field, professor of occupational and environmental health in the College of Public Health, on radon as one of the major environmental hazards faced in the United States (Daily Nonpareil, Jan. 19).